Zen（Chan）painting and traditional art are different between content and form originally, and the meaning of painting or Zen varies from it’s origin and type. Through the connection between Chinese and India culture, the doctrines of Zen and the paintings of vivid portrait were accepted gradually in China, it came to be popularized and became the most cultural sect after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the Zen sect（ 禪 宗 ） of founding doctrine rose powerfully, and pursued the Attainment of Buddahood with the cognition of one’s own innate temperament and extinction of the remaining traces. It discarded resemblances and emphasised upon vivid portrait in writing or drawing.Those conceptions were accepted by literati（文士）gradually, and all related with Zen came up to Zen art at last. From the beginning of Tang Dynasty to Five-Dynasty, there have three hundred. Master Guan-Xiu is prominent monk in Zen and art. His thought of Zen painting and poems are ahead of the times, so the paper is necessary for me to talk about those problems.
